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In fact, the value of assets held by such funds fluctuates, and it is only an accounting convention – permitted by regulators – that allows them to report a stable value.
In fact, an unwritten but sacrosanct convention ensures that the Speaker almost never uses the position’s authority to suspend or expel errant members, except when there is a consensus between the government and the opposition to do so – which of course rarely occurs.
On the anti-torture protocol, the US sought to derail the creation of a universal system of visits to places of detention, under an optional protocol to the Convention Against Torture.
The US itself relied on the Convention in the case against Iran that it brought in 1980 before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, a year after Iranian students and others, with the revolutionary regime’s evident blessing, breached America’s embassy in Tehran and abducted its diplomats.
In other words, a host state that enters a foreign mission without consent (none was given in my time as EU Ambassador in Washington, DC, from 2004 to 2009), or hacks into its computer system, would be acting in blatant violation of the Convention.
Surveillance technology has advanced a great deal since 1961, when the Convention was concluded.
That is why the League of Nations approved the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1924, and why the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
In fact, it has not even ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) was established in 1982, as part of the Antarctic Treaty System, in response to concerns that continued unregulated fishing might undermine the basis of the Antarctic food chain.
This choice may indicate that the organization’s leaders have already decided to proceed with the release.Reinforcing this conclusion, after the UN convention, Target Malaria attempted to draw a distinction between the requirement of free, prior, and informed consent in the context of medical research on individuals (where it is demanded) and in a public-health context.
Reinforcing this conclusion, after the UN convention, Target Malaria attempted to draw a distinction between the requirement of free, prior, and informed consent in the context of medical research on individuals (where it is demanded) and in a public-health context.
Animal advocates have long struggled against the convention of reserving “who” for people, and using “that” or “which” for animals.
NEW YORK – As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange play out in the international media, one convention of the coverage merits serious scrutiny.
The convention of not naming rape accusers is a relic of the Victorian period, when rape and other sex crimes were being codified and reported in ways that prefigure our own era.
Nonetheless, even after women gained legal rights – and even as other assumptions about women have gone the way of smelling salts and whalebone stays – the condescending Victorian convention of not identifying women who make sex-crime charges remains with us.
That convention not only is an insult to women, but also makes rape prosecutions far more difficult.
In fact, the convention of anonymity merely allows rape myths to flourish.
As a result, 90 days later, on August 17, the convention will enter into force.
The convention will soon apply to all of the cross-border rivers of its signatories’ territories, not just the biggest basins.
Backed by adequate financing, political will, and the engagement of stakeholders, the convention can help address the water challenges that we are all facing.
Furthermore, how will the convention relate to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, which is already in force in most European and Central Asian countries and, since February 2013, has aimed to open its membership to the rest of the world?
What instruments, including financial, will the convention provide to them?
It has instituted legal proceedings against Russia before both the International Court of Justice for alleged violations of the UN Convention on Racial Discrimination and the European Court of Human Rights for alleged breaches of Articles 2 (right to life) and 3 (prohibiting inhuman and degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
After all, the party has made opposition to admitting refugees the centerpiece of its platform, which also includes antagonism toward the European Union and a very conservative social program, to which an openly sectarian religious component was added at a May 3 party convention in Stuttgart.
The US, for example, initially had strong objections to the Convention on Tobacco Control, but dropped them in the face of international criticism.
According to constitutional convention in the UK, the Lords do not block measures that the government had in its manifesto.
By bombing Serbia's infrastructure, NATO also violated Article 14 of the 1977 Protocol of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits attacks on "objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population."
Sanders knows that even if he does speak out on Israel, at the AIPAC convention or elsewhere, he would not win over the country’s more hawkish supporters, including among Democrats.
Next month, representatives from more than 190 countries will meet in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (UN Biodiversity Conference).
Add low taxes and a double-taxation convention with Russia, and it is no surprise that Cyprus’s business model –serving as an international center for services and trade – has been successful.
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